I think that should be on the table also. Though maybe a touch early for it. They need to do that in response to something so it doesn’t look like they are the ones escalating.

The concept is symbolic in a way. It may give people like ICE agents a little more fear when they do a raid. If things get really ugly, it could arguably be a deterrent. Ideally national guard troops ordered into a blue state might refuse such an order because they expect armed resistance that would force them to shoot civilians. Where as right now, they would expect no resistance. And that possibility might deter the feds from ordering troops in because they don’t want to risk the order being refused. At the end of the day. Most americans don’t want americains killing each other. So anything we can do to make that less appetizing to the people in charge that don’t care about Americans, the better.

Well, you get the benefit of people taking thos susidized or free classes. That is a good thing, though it doesn’t actually require pausing gun control. Otherwise the concept is symbolic in a way. It may give people like ICE agents a little more fear when they do a raid. If things get really ugly, it could arguably be a deterrent. Ideally national guard troops ordered into a blue state might refuse such an order because they expect armed resistance that would force them to shoot civilians. Where as right now, they would expect no resistance.

You would be surprised how plentiful food is when there are no people eating it. Fishing with a spear would be easy. So as long as you can make a fire, you shouldn’t starve. But there would also be plenty of animals that would consider you food.

And you can’t just tell the cows to take a week off. Lol

Sounds reality tv…

Oddly, without the neural component it would be worthless for nearly all drug testing. And since they don’t really understand how things like the gut are almost like a second brain, the lack of a neural component will really hamper most things.

Flawed from the start really.

Sadly it wouldn’t let me put in multiple. And when I put in the town, it only had the nearest small airport, then all the far away major ones. I know of one other minor airport for sure and it wasn’t even on the list.

Well, regional maybe the wrong word. I don’t know. But I do know a lot of very small airports often have a few commercial flights per day. Like my buddy live 5 minutes from a very small airport. It runs 1 commercial flight a day to a major airport hub that is a few states away. One near me has like 2 flights a day each to 2 nearby major airports. And I know New York has lots of smaller airports that I thought were referred to as regional airports that fly into the various airports in New York City.

Okay, so the line about them being well known behind the bar seems odd to me if this was a holiday getaway. Is that implying that they vacationed there very often or something? In the US a comment like that would be reserved for people who live there.

Thanks. And yeah, I have edited my post to clarify. I generally pay very little attention to the day to day market conditions. So I just failed to take into account how many people are panicking because of the recent drop. I’ve been thinking about this for a couple weeks.

I will have to look up that 10k thing. That sounds like a smart idea with very little downside.

My thought are that the US is alienating more and more countries everyday. And maybe other countries may become less willing to aid US persecution of it’s own people, and less afraid of US sanctions if the US is already making trading with the US pointless. So my thinking was maybe international investment companies might have some amount of insulation. But I don’t really know a lot about how the money works behind the scenes.

Yeah, I don’t intend to flee easily. But my family is special… if they start targeting people like us, I may feel I have to flee to keep my kids safe. I wouldn’t want to cash out of the market, just maybe change who is managing it to protect it from the US gov if they come after us.

Actually I was thinking about this unrelated to the current market drop. It is fear based, but not based on the dropping market. Moving money now would certainly be terrible. I am thinking farther foreward and just wanting to know my options.

While my family aren’t immigrants, we are not far below them on the list of targets for this administration. So the time may come when the gov goes after us and we feel we need to flee before the gov targets us specifically. I just don’t know if there is anything I can do to ensure I will have access to money if we feel we need to flee.

In the case of investments it would be more like a transfer, then a pull out in my head. Maybe there are institutions I could move some of my investments to that would be out of reach of the US gov for example. I do have an after tax brokerage account for example. Not a ton in it, but unlike retirement money, it is probably free to move without penalty.

We would have to work out how to note what happened and pass on the info. I don’t have a great memory anyway, so people are used to me forgetting what I did.

I can fit me in about that space, so maybe a copy of myself. We could trade off working and playing. That would double my leasure time.

I’d replicate some of these new graphics cards that are so hard to find.

Isn’t that where top gun is at… maybe that was miramar. Lol. Close enough.

Not possible. Nature finds a way.